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Eleanor Ringel Gillespie has been the lead movie critic for the Atlanta Journal Constitution for 28 years.
An Atlanta native, she graduated magna cum laude from Brown University.
She has been a regular contributor to CNN, MSNBC, Entertainment Weekly, The Oxford American‘s annual Southern Movie Issue, Headline News and WXIA, the local NBC affiliate, and a columnist for TV Guide. She is a member of the National Society of Film Critics and her work has been included in their anthologies of film criticism, “The X List,“ and “The A List.“
She’s served on panels or juries at the Dallas International Film Festival (jury chair) the Sarasota French Film Festival, the Kennedy Center, the Florida Film Festival, the High Falls Film Festival in Rochester New York and Robert Osborne’s Classic Film Festival in Athens, Georgia. She is the author of “Stargazing” and is currently working on a book about business and the workplace on film.
A Pultizer Prize nominee, her reviews have won her awards from multiple organizations, including Sigma Delta Chi (the Green Eyeshade awards) and the Cox newspaper chain. She was honored by the YWCA of Greater Atlanta in their 1999 Salute to Women of Achievement and by the IMAGE Film & Video Center (same year as Michael Stipe!). She has been named Best Pop Culture Critic and Best Local Critic by Atlanta Magazine. Her face was on a MARTA city bus in Atlanta, just like Carrie in “Sex and the City!“
The so-so comedy “Baby Mama” is essentially notable for being the 8th movie in less than a year in which pregnancy (or abortion) is central to the plot. Think “Juno,” “Knocked Up,” Waitress,” “Smart People,” “Then She Found Me,” “Bella,” etc. Read the rest of this entry »
The thriller part is idiotic, but the plot-line of professional women having, you know, needs, had me laughing out loud. I didn’t know whether to be offended or amused. Or both. Read the rest of this entry »
To paraphrase dotty Aunt Pittypat in Gone With the Wind: “Tornados in Atlanta! How did they get in?” Read the rest of this entry »
Who said there are no roles for women? At least six femme-centric — as Variety would have it — films are out there. Unfortunately, with the exception of a movie made 27 years ago, they range from demeaning to horrifying. Read the rest of this entry »
Gus Van San went through his own Hollywood sell-out period (a shot-by-shot remake of ďż˝Psychoďż˝ anyone?), but has increasingly returned to his indie roots. Read the rest of this entry »
What kind of women’s onscreen work is worthy of Oscar notice? Entertainers and hookers, if we’re talking professionals. Read the rest of this entry »
What kind of women’s roles attract Oscar gold? Eleanor Ringel gives us a pithy survey: Read the rest of this entry »
“What kind of year has Hollywood had? Let me put it this way,” writes Ringel, “four of my Top 10 movies are foreign Read the rest of this entry »
Jeez, I feel like the Ugly Stepsister. But here it is. Unlike most of my colleagues and many members of this esteemed organization (damn right it’s esteemed), I wasn’t all that enchanted by “Enchanted.” Read the rest of this entry »
Okay, time to be the canary in the coal mine. You know, the one that senses and suffers the toxic fumes first and keels over heroically so that others might live. Welcome to “Lions for Lambs.” Read the rest of this entry »